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"I believe that when the staff of this anime decided to make Marimite into anime, they seriously deliberated upon "To whom should they set target audience?"
They chose DaFool , because DaFool spends much more money than high school girls. But they also desided, "We will never curry DaFool 's favor like bishoujo anime." They knew DaFool [was] bored with harem anime like Love Hina and lolicon anime like Chobits. DaFool had a thirst for something new. So they made this anime in elegant shoujo style. They think DaFool h[has] no immunity to this kind of style, and maybe they are right.

well, after seeing something like naruto only getting around 9% (and FMA at 6%, seed at 8%), i'm not that disappointed in marimite's ratings anymore. it's for a niche group, and imho it will stay that way.

fans will call out for it, and i'm keeping both my fingers crossed so that the producers will listen.

I know that you combined an absolute census number and a relative viewer number. If the latter number is relative to the former then logically all people in Japan watch TV. If the latter number is not relative to the former then the mentioning of the former number is irelevant to the argument.

Also, CIA World Fact Book estimates the population census at 127,333,002 (July 2004 est.). Not that it matters much, just saying.

I know that you combined an absolute census number and a relative viewer number. If the latter number is relative to the former then logically all people in Japan watch TV. If the latter number is not relative to the former then the mentioning of the former number is irelevant to the argument.

Also, CIA World Fact Book estimates the population census at 127,333,002 (July 2004 est.). Not that it matters much, just saying.

Well taking Japanese government data and the Euromonitor International statistics, 99.14 per 100 people in Japan own TV sets so I'm assuming that almost everyone in Japan watches at least some sort of televised entertainment.

But since you are interested in a more accurate number, let's use your figures for a revision then:

As you can see, even if 37,871 persons buys the DVDs (10% of 0.3% of 99.13% the entire Japanese populace), this anime rakes in profit.

...Unless you meant something like "the amount of people watching TV at a certain given time." Unfortunately, that is not how TV ratings work - a rating monitor system is randomly selected among the populace as a per ratio of the sample size of the total population of Japan.

It leaves one to wonder if the second season would be completely subtitled by the time the third season finished airing.

It also leaves one to wonder wheter those comments serve any value at all ;p

Don't you know the golden rules of game translation/fansub/software developing

Do not ask when the next version/release is comming out
Do not ask about the features/characteristics the next release will have
Do not nag about the next release
Do not bother the developers/translators with silly questions
Do not ask the developers/translators questions at all
Do not make any kind of commentary that could lead the project workers to remotely suspect that you are possibly asking for the next release
And before you reply, the answer is no

I agree that OAVs are probable, because the series is lucrative, but it does not look like a third season is slated anytime soon. Movies were mentioned but in a way I think an OAV series would be even nicer because they may not rush resolution as a movie must (not that one wouldn't be nice as well ^^). Aside from that, while I have not seen S2 13 yet, I have heard of a somewhat... dramatic visual ending, which sort of begs the idea of closure.

Also, people seem to have conflicting notions about which season was slower paced. I feel that the first season had a slower pace, and I thought it more pleasant and thoughtful, which in turn made the second season "slower" in terms of my interest... in a way the second season has been more of a fix for me than a pleasure. So I would hope for an OAV series to be nice, slow episodes. I don't see how this could be the end of MariMite, so I look forward to it in whatever form it comes in.

Maybe the novels will be more accessible to people of other languages too due to eventual fan translations etc who miss the seasons. If I could get these novels soon I know I would jump on the chance to provide, so I imagine others feel the same way. So the conclusion is I think more MariMite is thankfully inevetible.

Well taking Japanese government data and the Euromonitor International statistics, 99.14 per 100 people in Japan own TV sets so I'm assuming that almost everyone in Japan watches at least some sort of televised entertainment.

Oh, okay. That was kinda where I was dumbfounded to begin with. Thanks for explaining.